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Following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far, Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday,
that he US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely
illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,”
“They are murder victims,” the Virginia Democrat wrote in a letter to Donald Trump.
So far, the US military has killed at least 221 people and destroyed at least 67 vessels in the “Operation Southern Spear” campa…

‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

Contradicción norteamericana
https://elpais.com/opinion/2026-07-04/contradiccion-norteamericana.html
Celebrar el 250 aniversario del nacimiento de Estados Unidos permite valorar la gravedad del ataque a sus principios aspiracionales

Four House Republicans crossed party lines on Wednesday
and voted to limit Trump’s power to continue directing military action in Iran without congressional authorization,
delivering a rebuke of the war that recently entered its fourth month.
The four hail from different factions within the G.O.P.;
two are staunch conservatives with libertarian views that include opposition to foreign military intervention,
while the other two are more mainstream Republicans fro…

Massie, 3 Other House Republicans Broke From Trump on Iran War Powers Vote
Four Republicans from different ideological factions crossed party lines to vote with Democrats in favor of reining in the president’s power to wage war unilaterally.

Today we’re talking about California’s Proposition 39,
a bid to turn Trump’s election conspiracy fantasies into California law,
and a proposal so disingenuous it’s caused Democratic legislators to sue the Democratic secretary of state in an attempt to stop the misinformation surrounding it.
As these lawsuits move forward and the November election rolls closer, we’re going to hear a lot about Proposition 39
— a measure that would require
in-person voters to pres…

Prop. 39 would turn Trump conspiracy into California law.
A legal fight has broken out around Proposition 39, a proposal to require voters to prove their citizenship at polls with ID. It's a partisan attempt to recycle the election conspiracy lies of President Donald Trump into California law -- and it has a chance of passing.

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

Will California voters ‘orphaned’ in top-two primary be strategic in November House races?
Esther Kim Varet has gotten a lot of questions recently from “depressed” liberals wondering whom they should vote for in November to represent them in the redrawn 40th Congressional District,
which covers a large swath of inland Orange County and portions of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The Democratic art gallery owner placed third in last month’s closely watched primary fo…

Will California voters 'orphaned' in top-two primary be strategic in November House races?
California voters left without a candidate from their own party after the top-two primary could still hold strategic sway in key congressional contests.

On Monday, the US supreme court handed Donald Trump – and all future presidents – the power to fire leaders of independent agencies or commissions,
overturning 90 years of court precedent curbing executive power.
While Trump celebrated the decision on Truth Social as a “big win”, labor advocates, unions, and consumer advocacy groups criticized the supreme court decision on the case,
Trump v Slaughter, and warned of the long-term impacts for democracy in the US. Rebecca Slau…

Outcry over supreme court decision to grant Trump power to fire agency chiefs
Legal and labor experts say Trump v Slaughter decision upends settled constitutional law in favor of ‘loyalty test’

Democrats may cast last-minute ballots for California governor.
“There’s a little bit of, whoever’s in the lead some Democrats are choosing to vote for … but people don’t know who that person is,” Grose said,
noting that “some of that [could start] to go away” as the race tightens.
An indication that Democrats are starting to consolidate around Xavier Becerra, the former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, came Tuesday in a new survey released by the California Demo…

Democrats may vote at last minute for governor. What it will mean
With the top two candidates in the primary advancing, many Democratic-leaning voters appear to be waiting for a clear leader to emerge, political analysts say.

Andy Kim, a Democratic senator, said he was pepper sprayed by federal agents on Monday during a protest at a New Jersey detention facility.
Video posted on social mediashowed Kim receiving help from a volunteer who is seen pouring water in his eyes outside Delaney Hall in Newark,
where detainees are reportedly staging a hunger strike against poor conditions and denial of medical care.
Demonstrators clashed with immigration officers who used batons and pepper spray as they a…